Archive of In Praise of Barbarians
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Mike Davis: Social Distancing, Not Home Arrest
The combined effects of fear, confinement, income loss and the potential destruction of family savings augur a mental-health crisis on an even larger scale than the pandemic itself. Consider solidarity an essential vaccine.
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Mike Davis on COVID-19: The monster is at the door
Capitalist globalization now appears to be biologically unsustainable in the absence of a truly international public health infrastructure. But such an infrastructure will never exist until peoples’ movements break the power of Big Pharma and for-profit healthcare.
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Capitalism Is the Disease
Renowned activist-scholar Mike Davis assesses the coronavirus crisis and discusses the urgent need for international solidarity to end this (and future) pandemics. Watch the video.